Anne Hathaway reveals she no longer wants to be called 'Anne'

Anne Hathaway has made the surprising revelation in a new interview that she no longer wants to be called "Anne".

The 38-year-old actress decided to set the record straight after two decades of being called the wrong name.

"Can we talk about my name for a second?" Hathaway asked Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday's edition of The Tonight Show.

It was then that the Princess Diaries star explained that she actually hates being called Anne, having adopted the moniker at the age of 14 when it was the name that she went by.

She said: "When I was 14 years old I did a commercial and I had to get my SAG (Screen Actors Guild) card and they asked me 'what do you want your name to be?'

"And I'm like, well it should be my name - my name is Anne Hathaway... and that seemed like the right choice, but it never occurred to me that for the rest of my life people would call me Anne," she told Fallon in the interview

She explained that her mother is the only person that calls her Anne, and she only uses the name when she's angry at the 38-year-old.

"So every time I step out in public and someone calls my name, I think they're going to yell at me," she said.

So, what would the actress like to be referred to as?

"Anything but Anne," she explained, smiling.

The 38-year-old explained that her friends call her "Annie" whereas others use "Hath" or "Miss H."

During the interview, Hathaway also opened up about parenting her two children, aged four and one, with husband Adam Shulman during lockdown.

"It's been a lot," she said, "but those are good ages to be home with your kids because our 4-year-old believes everything we tell him -- and that's adorable as well as very useful - and our 1-year-old... it's just the most magic age."

Anne Hathaway, or should we say Annie Hathaway, is currently starring alongside Chiwetel Ejiofor in the HBO Max film Locked Down, which is dropping on Tuesday of next week.